Heraclitus Quotes

The desire to get from point A to point B in the shortest, most efficient amount of time without ever wandering off path, can mean you miss out on those happy accidents that push you further and faster in a direction you never even considered.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.